PICO & BEVERLY GLEN BOULEVARDS, DEACON COUPLE: TOM AND CARRIE SABOL LOS ANGELES, CA 90064 REV. EMMANUEL P. BANICO, RESIDENT PRIEST PARISH OFFICE: (310) 474-1216 WWW.STTIMOTHYLA.ORG
Third Sunday of Advent
December 13, 2009 With joy you will draw water at the fountain of salvation. — Isaiah 12:3
OFFICE CONFESSIONS MARRIAGES, BAPTISIMS, SPECIAL SERVICES & MASSES
10425 W. Pico Blvd. Saturday: 4:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Phone: (310) 474-1216 First Friday: Before 7:30 a.m. Mass PLEASE CALL THE RECTORY WWW.STTIMOTHYLA.ORG SCHOOL MASS SCHEDULE DEVOTIONS Iselda E. Richmond, Principal Saturday Vigil: 5:30 p.m. Monday following 7:30 a.m. Mass, Miraculous 10479 W. Pico Blvd Sunday Masses: 7:30, 9:00, 10:30, 12:00 p.m. Medal Novena. 1st Friday After 7:30 a.m. Mass. Daily Masses: 7:30 a.m. Phone: (310) 474-1811 Holy Day Masses: Vigil: 5:30 p.m., 7:30 a.m., First Saturday of the month following 7:30 a.m. WWW.STTIMOTHY.ORG Mass, Our Lady of Fatima, and Every Monday 12:10 p.m. 7:15 p.m. Legion of Mary. December 13, 2009 St. Timothy
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STS ANNUAL FUND DRIVE- Like all other non-profit organization, St. Timothy School needs your help more than ever this year. Help our school keep its tuition down and continue providing our children with an education that competes with that offered by the top schools in Los Angeles County. Consider supporting the 2009-2010 Annual Fund Baptisms Drive by making a tax deductible contribution to our school. For further Our next Baptism Preparation Class for parents and information contact the school’s office at (310) 474-1811 and/or pick-up godparents will be held in the rectory on Thursday, De- a pledge form at the back of the church and mail it in before the end of the year. Your support is vital to our school’s success cember 17 th at 5:30pm. Please call Deborah at (310)474- THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!-On behalf of the Book Fair 1216 or email her at dre@sttimothyla.org, for an applica- Committee, we would like to thank each and everyone one of you for tion and more information. supporting the St. Timothy School Book Fair. A special thank you to all of the parents and all everyone who volunteered their time to help with the book fair. We raised over $5,000 and this book fair would not have St. Timothy's Women's Club Luncheon been a SUCCESS without you! Thank you and we wish you and your Thursday, December 17, 2009 11:30 a.m. family a Happy Holiday! Sharron Thurmond/Lisa Lepore, Book Fair Com- Please join us for our Christmas Luncheon. mittee Chairpersons Our favorite Rosemary Giuliano will cater. Hi St. Timothy Parents & Parishioners !! We are excited to There will be fun and games. Please invite offer three new merchandise items from St. Timothy School to help support and promote the school!! The stainless steel water bottle would husbands and friends. be terrific gift for everyone as we try to move toward being more green Call Mary Partis--310-475-1541 or Pat Mattison-310- and use less plastic especially at school. The 100% cotton canvas bag is 277-2537 for reservations. It is important another excellent way of being more green, while using less paper and that we have the correct number for the caterer. plastic bags to carry groceries, books, to go to the beach, etc. The cara- We look forward to seeing you all there. biner can be used to attach the water bottle to students’ backpacks or simply be used for keys. All prices are extremely reasonable! WATER BOTTLE 20 oz Navy Blue Stainless Steel: $10,CAN- Religious Education Sunday School VAS BAG 100% Navy Blue Cotton Canvas: $10. CARABINER w/ Little Church welcomes your pre-schoolers from ages Key Ring Stainless Steel: $1. Order forms are available at the Front of- 2 to 4 to a Christmas celebration on December 20 th, fice. Please hand your order forms with your payment to Lorraine in the school office. Go green and Please help St. Timothy School! Thanks, The at 10:30 am in the Chapter Room. There is no class on December St. Timothy School PTA 20 th, 27 th and January 3rd due to Christmas holidays. Classes will STS Drama Club presents- AN EVENING WITH SHEL SILVERSTEIN- adapted and directed by STS Drama Teacher, Mr. G. resume on January 10 th. Please call Deborah at (310)474-1216 or The performance will be at 7 p.m., Monday, December 14th. Tickets are email her at dre@sttimothyla.org, if you have not registered. $5 (6 yrs and up) and available at the door. Girl Scout Troop 6315 thanks all of the St. Timothy School & Parish families for helping them collect 372 lbs. of food to help them with their "Feed Your Neighbor" project. This past weekend, the girls concluded their project by holding a food drive at the Pavillions/Vons Grocery Store in the Brentwood area. All food collected is on its way to Sunday, Dec 13th: 7:30 Veronica Jonston (D) the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank! 9:00 Frank Fratello (D) Fingerprinting schedule- In order for our parish and school to cooperate with The Archdiocesan policies in providing a safe environ- 10:30 For Parishioners of St Timothy ment for our children; all volunteers working with children must be fin- 12:00 Amparo Gariby (L) gerprinted. We are aware that appointments can be difficult to find Monday, Dec. 14th: 7:30 Tina Gaultier (D) because the schedules fill up rapidly. Listed are the dates and locations Tuesday, Dec. 15th: 7:30 Fred Bulacan (L) of where you can get finger printed: Wednesday, Dec. 16th: 7:30 Tina Gaultier (D) December 2009 fingerprinting schedule for OUR LADY OF THE AN- GELS REGION: ST. PATRICK 1046 E. 34th St. LOS ANGELES Thursday, Dec. 17th: Madinluie Gauduo (D) Wednesday, December 16th 12:00pm - 3:40pm & 5:20pm - 7:20pm Friday, Dec. 18th: Bishop John Ward (L) For appointment call (323) 234-5963 We thank you in advance for your Sunday, Dec 20th: 9:00 Baby Morua (D) patience as we move towards our common goal: protecting the faithful 10:30 For Parishioners of St Timothy of the future. Please call 213-637-7411 if you have any questions and 12:00 Maria Davila (L) schedules for other regions.
READINGS FOR THE WEEK Santa needs your Church Tour
help! Are you interested in the history and architecture Monday: Nm 24:2-7, 15-17a; Mt 21:23-27 It’s that time of the year Tuesday: Zep 3:1-2, 9-13; Mt 21:28-32 of our beautiful church? You are invited to a spe- again!! We need your Wednesday: Is 45:6b-8, 18, 21b-25; Lk 7:18b-23 donations of candy and cial church tour here at St Timothy. Deacon Tom Thursday: Gn 49:2, 8-10; Mt 1:1-17 toys for our Children’s will be our guide, he will share with us many fas- Friday: Jer 23:5-8; Mt 1:18-25 Mass. Please call Deb- cinating stories and historical events of this Saturday: Jgs 13:2-7, 24-25a; Lk 1:5-25 orah at the rectory to church. So don’t miss this informative and inspir- Sunday: Mi 5:1-4a; Ps 80; Heb 10:5-10; arrange a drop-off. ing tour of our church on Thursday, January 7th, Lk 1:39-45 at 7pm. CHRISTMAS SCHEDULE 2009 Confessions: Saturday, December 19, 2009 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Please note: No Confessions Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Years Eve and New Years Day. Thanks to everyone who helped and vis- Communal Penance Service (with confession): ited the “ministry fair” in the hall last weekend. As Thursday, December 17,2009 7:00 p.m. you may know the fair coincided with the “time and Christmas Eve December 24th: talent” elements of the “time, talent and treasure” 4:00 p.m. (New) Family Mass trio, the latter, which the parish emphasized last 5:30 p.m. Family Mass 9:40 p.m. Musical Prelude week and this week. If Advent is a time to prepare 10:00 p.m. Traditional Christmas Eve Mass for Christmas then preparation includes the personal Christmas Day December 25th: and the communal. In part, then, at least for myself 7:30 a.m. Christmas Mass and for most other people, that includes some sort of 9:00 a.m. Christmas Mass philanthropic giving. For most of us, again, we give 10:30 a.m. Christmas Mass 12 p.m. (noon) Christmas Mass to various non-profit and religious and perhaps edu- New Years Day Feast of Mary, Mother of God: cational entities. We are asking to remember, if you January 1st: NOT A DAY OF OBLIGATION are able to, your church too as a possible candidate Regular Mass Schedule: 7:30 a.m. among several other entities that do not receive any kind of government aid. You might say, and I agree, LITURGICAL MINISTER SCHEDULE December 20, 2009 why can’t the church be just spiritual and not be an Lectors Communion Ministers institution that needs resources to keep going. Also, 5:30— Halls 5:30— Ewell; Martner; Morrison thanks and recognition to our adult, children and 7:30— Recto 7:30— Recto; Owen; Aclan 9:00— Demer; Sabol 9:00— Svobodas; Rowe school choirs for helping us this weekend to enter 10:30— Jean-Pierre; Samiley 10:30— Jean-Pierre; Page; Ermert into the joy of the season through music. Thanks to Roman everyone who participated and especially helped in 12:00— Falcone 12:00— Gerski; Simmons; Gallant the Guadalupe celebration this weekend as well. At all the masses this weekend we are asking folks to try to make a commitment to the church for 2010 financially. This will help us to make a budget and by filling out the cards enable us to update our parish Sunday, December 13th: Third Sunday of Advent census. Thank you for participating in this process. I Children’s Liturgy of the Word 9 am Mass know I wish we didn’t have to but I guess that’s what Monday, December 14th: we call reality. We will have a penance service this Legion of Mary 7:15 pm in the Rectory Thursday, December 17th: coming Thursday at 7:00 pm. With a few priests on Choir practice 7:15 pm Music Room hand to hear confessions and help people prepare for 11:30 am Women’s Club Luncheon the Christmas season. This is an exciting time of the Friday, December 18th: year for most people so I would hope that we do the School Noon Dismissal best we can to enjoy the season. It is also a busy time Sunday, December 20th: of year for the office and come Christmas we will Children’s Liturgy of the Word 9 am Mass have a lot more people coming to services, as you know. I hope we can be patient with the extra people Welcome New Parishioners! coming for Christmas Masses. This can be a difficult Welcome to our parish family! If you are a newcomer to the parish and would like to register, please complete the informa- time of the year especially if anyone has lost a loved tion below. Please clip this form and bring to the parish office one recently (and not only recently). I hope we can or drop into the collection basket. Thank you and welcome to be welcoming to our “visitors” this Christmas. our parish! Again, thanks for your support of your church and Name (s): Address: City: for helping us to continue to serve you. Zip: Phone: Cell Phone: E-Mail: Fr. Paul E. Vigil Envelopes: Yes No Registration cards are also available in Parish Office